Okay. That's progress. She turns back around, and her face is as neutral as she can make it. "I'll try to explain it," she offers, "But it's gonna sound like bullshit. So stick with me." And hopefully, Kainé will. Anna slips back into a little more of a teacherly tone, sort of like she's giving a guided tour of her own life. Some odd job skills never die.
"What I am is a normal girl from 21st century Earth. I like playing music and helping people and doing tech support. I'm from a city called Recollé where people from other realities had their souls intertwine with our own until our bodies and memories and who we are started changing."
She recognizes that's not a great thing to bring up, so she continues quickly. "I got her sword skills, most of her body, and this patchwork mess of her memories that I still don't have the whole story on. I shouldn't still have her riding shotgun inside my body now that I'm not in the city anymore. But I'm finished changing, and this is combination of both of us is how I'm going to be for the rest of my life. She can't take my body over. That's not how it works."
That feels like it should be the end of it, but she has something else. "And even if it were, she is exhausted. She's lost everyone who matters to her in the name of some fucking... forever war that's just one hand playing against itself, just getting androids killed to gather more data to build better androids to kill more androids." Her hand twitches at her side, but she ignores the impulse to curl it against her chest like she usually does when she talks about A2 too much. Instead, she looks at Kainé and asks something as sincerely as possible.
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"What I am is a normal girl from 21st century Earth. I like playing music and helping people and doing tech support. I'm from a city called Recollé where people from other realities had their souls intertwine with our own until our bodies and memories and who we are started changing."
She recognizes that's not a great thing to bring up, so she continues quickly. "I got her sword skills, most of her body, and this patchwork mess of her memories that I still don't have the whole story on. I shouldn't still have her riding shotgun inside my body now that I'm not in the city anymore. But I'm finished changing, and this is combination of both of us is how I'm going to be for the rest of my life. She can't take my body over. That's not how it works."
That feels like it should be the end of it, but she has something else. "And even if it were, she is exhausted. She's lost everyone who matters to her in the name of some fucking... forever war that's just one hand playing against itself, just getting androids killed to gather more data to build better androids to kill more androids." Her hand twitches at her side, but she ignores the impulse to curl it against her chest like she usually does when she talks about A2 too much. Instead, she looks at Kainé and asks something as sincerely as possible.
"Does that make any of it any clearer?"